How can you bring your presence to the moment? How can you know what this moment has to tell you? Bringing your essence to the present moment means finding the place where your essential inquiries meet the world, where you, as you know yourself, are unfolding in each moment. Engaging oracles in divination, we use questions. The very act of asking plunges you into a world of choice and possibility, a world in formation. In a ritual of questioning, you activate your senses and excite your intuition. Like water and sunlight acting on a seed underground, your questions catalyze growth and initiate movement both inside and outside of you.
I invite you to meet with me in a ritual of questioning using the ancient oracles of the I Ching and the Tarot cards. It will be a space where you can explore questions and find ways to support and energize your journey. I can help you to form your questions and explore ways to relate effectively with the responses from the oracles. Often this process brings clarity and a sense of well-being as you connect to the deeper sources of energy and movement in your world. The I Ching, plied with questions, offers subtle directions on the energies in play, bringing insight to your actions and decisions. The Tarot images, resonating with the heart of humanity, deepen your understanding of both your obstacles and your intentions.
Sessions include both questions and discussion. If you wish, sessions can also include ways to engage your discoveries through meditation, lifestyle choices, herbs, oils and stones. We’ll talk together to design your personal inquiry so that it suits the moment. Then we will create your reading by me asking you to caste coins for a total of 6 times, reading off the result to render the reading. Please bring 3 coins of the same denomination to your session for this purpose. If you wish to consult with the Tarot, I can use a deck of my own or you can bring one of your choosing to our session.
For more information email Josephine@essencepresence.com
I offer Divination Days most often on what are called the cross-quarter earth holidays. These days mark the mid-point of each season and represent a potent energetic support for your inquiry. I like to work with the energy in divination at any time, but these special days can be especially powerful for this practice. In the wheel of the year these days most often fall on the following dates: February 1/2, May 1, August 2 & October 31/November 1.
If you would like to schedule a divination for another time other than the cross-quarter days on the calendar, please email me directly to arrange a time.
About the Oracles
The I Ching, the world’s oldest known oracle and divination system with records dating from 2,500 years ago, expounds on the movements of life and energy in detail, helping you to understand what the current play of energies in your life may bring you. Unlike fortune-telling focused on the future, when you ask the oracle, you invite insight and inquiry into what is driving you now. Where will you go if you stay on this road, what of a different route? Of course, what is driving you now, will bring you into the future. But instead of your unconscious motives and hidden questions driving you into your own future, you can ride the vehicle of change, using openness and curiosity to power you.
Tarot Cards, arising some 500 years ago as decks of cards, spring from the well of human experience common to any human no matter where on the earth they live. The images of the Tarot display the journey of a life through love, sorrow, pain, creation and dissolution. Using both strong images such as The Empress and The Magician and the four elements of earth, water, fire and air, the cards invite you to see how you engage your world and learn more about the nature of your obstacles. Seeing more of who you are, guiding your awareness more deeply, you are empowered to grow and change with intention and direction.
